Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want you to hire Paul Richards to represent me to handle the negotiations for my release. Pay him about $1,000 and I will pay you back. . . . Some one will get in touch with him soon...
...last year. In good times it employs 2,300 men; now it employs 1,500. It makes clay pigeon traps, sportsmen's targets and detonators as well as shells and cartridges, is affiliated with four powder companies. President Olin hates waste and laziness, does not like to hire baseball enthusiasts or golfers. The atmosphere in the plant is friendly and open, but whenever there is an explosion (on July 10, 1923, twelve employes were killed by one) first-hand information on the cause becomes scarce...
...American Dental Association, convening at Memphis last week, agreed with Dr. John T. Hanks of Manhattan that "if the dentists do not educate the American people along proper diet and care of the teeth, who will?" Thereupon the Association decided that they ought to hire an advertising agency, and instructed the board of trustees to figure the cost (probably $500,000) of advertising dental health in national magazines and on the radio. Newspapers will get advertising from local dental societies. There are, Dr. John F. Hawks of Manhattan estimated, 36,000,000 people in the U. S. who take...
...Morgue. Largest mammoth ever used in cinemas was Universal's Charlie, an agreeable and intelligent elephant who helped build Universal City by carrying lumber. Charlie was chloroformed and shot when he went wild and tried to kill his trainer. For East of Borneo it was necessary to hire extra alligators from California zoos. Some twelve actors lost fingers or toes while the picture was being made...
...estimated at $4,000 to $5,000 a day, inherited from his father who invented an oil drill, was further augmented by the takings of The Front Page. Observers familiar with the Hughes determination wondered whether he had really decided to abandon Queer People, wondered why he did not hire a cast of legitimate actors who would have nothing to fear from Hollywood's bigwigs...